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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is frightening that the men encounter?
(a) Ice floes.
(b) Rapids.
(c) French patrol boats.
(d) Large whales.

2. What does Hornblower see that motivates him to form an escape plan?
(a) A rowboat.
(b) An English ship off the coast.
(c) Two English spies following the coach.
(d) Nothing.

3. Why do Hornblower and Brown have to drag the boat free?
(a) It grounds in shallow water.
(b) It snags on an underwater log.
(c) It is caught in a small water whirlpool.
(d) It is caught in thick weeds.

4. What happens when Hornblower withdraws the final ligature from Bush's stump?
(a) The wound immediately appears better.
(b) Brown faints while watching.
(c) Bush faints.
(d) The wound bleeds and oozes pus.

5. When does the Count think it will be safe to escape?
(a) A week.
(b) In a few weeks.
(c) April.
(d) Within a few days when the hunt is abandoned.

Short Answer Questions

1. When they are about 178 miles from Paris, what happens?

2. What does Hornblower notice about Marie?

3. What has he not yet told Bush?

4. Why is Hornblower to be transported to Paris?

5. What does Hornblower announce as he knocks on the door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are mostly in Hornblower's thoughts as he waits his future?

2. How does Hornblower appeal to Caillard's humanity and what is Caillard's response?

3. How does Hornblower decide who will travel to Paris with him? Do you think it was a good choice?

4. How does Hornblower's opinion of Marie's appearance change as he stays in the house? What might this say about appearances in general?

5. Who does Hornblower think of when he first meets Marie and what might these thoughts foreshadow?

6. How do the Spanish treat Hornblower and what can he see from where he is? What do you think it says about his character that they would do this?

7. What seems to be one of Hornblowers primary emotional states? What does he think when he reviews his actions which led to his imprisonment?

8. How did Hornblower end up where he is at the beginning of the novel?

9. In what kind of physical shape is Bush?

10. Why does Colonel Caillard come to Rosas prison? What is Caillard like as a man? How do you think Hornblower felt about the man?

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